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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the answer is that many parents seek a school with a majority of students with cultural norms that they are comfortable with, because their children---especially as they grow into middle and HS years---will start to look at their peer groups for those norms.  For example, I don't want my DD in a school where a number of her peers and the families of her peers are fine with early age out of wedlock pregnancy being the norm.  I'm not okay with my DC being in a school where a significant number of peers have family members who may be incarcerated.  Similarly, I don't want my DC in an elitist environment either, with peers who have an entitled sense that somehow they enjoy their privileged existence due to the fact that somehow they, or their mom, dad or grandpa, are better than everyone else because they have a larger bank account.  [/quote]This is amusing. My white middle class kid went to DCPS through 9th grade. As a white middle class kid, she hung out mostly with the middle class kids (mostly white but also including kids of color adopted by white parents) and she also made friends in private schools and at BCC.  She didn't hang out with working class and poor black kids.  She gravitated to her own group. Later she moved on to a private school and she continued to hang out with the same kinds of people - although she got to know more kids who had a lot more money.

And here's the god's honest truth, people - she got all her drugs and alcohol from her middle and upper income white friends.  She was abused by the rich white son of a well-to-do family that donated thousands of dollars to the school. If your family is white and upper middle class in DC, you won't have to worry about your white kids adopting the cultural norms of poor and working class black kids.  There are too many divisions between white and black kids in DCPS, even when they go to the same school.  You will have to worry about them embracing the cultural norms of their rich white friends.[/quote]

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